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In Faust, Part Two, the titular character, Faust, is bathed "in the dew of Lethe" so that he would forget what happened in Faust, Part One. A remorseful Faust would not work well with the rest of Part 2. The forgetting powers of Lethe allowed him to forget the ending of the Gretchen drama and move on to the story of part 2.
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In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies is a 2016 non-fiction book by David Rieff, published by Yale University Press.Rieff argues the contrarian position that sometimes history, including past mass atrocities, is better forgotten than commemorated: [1] "whereas forgetting does an injustice to the past, remembering does an injustice to the present".
Vergangenheitsbewältigung describes the attempt to analyze, digest and learn to live with the past, in particular the Holocaust.The focus on learning is much in the spirit of philosopher George Santayana's oft-quoted observation that "those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it".
mindful of things done, aware of things to come: Thus, both remembering the past and foreseeing the future. From the North Hertfordshire District Council coat of arms. Memoriae Sacrum (M.S.) Sacred to the Memory (of ...) A common first line on 17th-century English church monuments. The Latinized name of the deceased follows, in the genitive case.
President Herbert Hoover then ordered the Army to clear the campsites and move the protesters across the Anacostia River. Washington, D.C., police clash with veteran protesters on July 28 1932.
Additionally, making a space change had its own effect. Passing through a doorway made information that's usually easy to remember harder to access. However, less important information was less affected. This shows that different things, like how things are connected and the space context, impact how people understand situations.
The average cost of college in the U.S. has tripled in the last 20 years, making advanced education unavailable and causing justified resentment among those who can’t afford it.